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Doula

Posting Date: 
Jun 11 2008
Hours: 
FT
Department: 
Maternal Child Health Programs
Position Summary: 
The Doula is a lay health worker who will work with pregnant and parenting women and their babies. The Doula will promote healthy pregnancies, breastfeeding, and parent-infant attachment. While establishing a trusting relationship with clients, the Doula will provide prenatal, labor and postpartum education and support. The Doula will focus especially on birthing support and education.
Duties and Responsibilities: 

· The Doula will provide culturally sensitive support and serve as a role model in general, also will be a member of the team and work in a context of supervision and support housed within the department of midwifery.
· Initiate contact with women as early in pregnancy as possible.
· Seek to establish a trusting relationship with the women, provide comprehensive education.
· Assist in labor and delivery. Attend and support women through labor and delivery and in initial hours postpartum.
· Visit pregnant and parenting moms in their homes.
· Provide individual and group education related to prenatal, postpartum, and interconception health.
· Serve as a Co-leader of Centering Pregnancy.
· Collect, maintain and disseminate required data.
· Maintain postpartum contact for a predetermined time period, maintain confidentiality of clients.
· Network with medical and social providers.
· Work cooperatively with other staff and midwives and serve as a resource to them.

Requirements: 

- Must have completed a Certified Doula Training Program and have completed training as a Breastfeeding Counselor.
- Must be self-motivated with good written and communication skills.
- Experience in developing trusting relationships with clients and working with team members.
- Must have 2-3 years experience as a childbirth educator and/or doula.
- Bilingual (English/Spanish) required.